Top 100 Burnham Quotes
#1. I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl," he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when you come." For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open.
Erik Larson
#2. Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel H. Burnham
Erik Larson
#3. I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.
Michael Douglas
#4. One portion of the lakefront, named Burnham Park in his honor, contains Soldier Field and the Field Museum, which he designed.
Erik Larson
#5. Would be no skipping and dancing. No heathen. The exposition was a dream city, but it was Burnham's dream. Everywhere
Erik Larson
#6. I find it all infinitely sad, but at the same time so entrancing, that I often feel as if it would be the part of wisdom to fly at once to the woods or mountains where one can always find peace. - Dora Root in a letter to Daniel Burnham
Erik Larson
#7. like Burnham Overy at all, really," he added. "They
Jason Goodwin
#8. An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes, with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills. - Daniel Burnham talking about Frederick Law Olmstead
Erik Larson
#9. Ferris, himself fed up with construction delays and Burnham's pestering, had told Gronau to turn the wheel or tear it off the tower.
Erik Larson
#10. Democracy is a wonderful thing, Mr Burnham,' he said wistfully. 'It is a marvellous tamasha that keeps the common people busy so that men like ourselves can take care of all matters of importance. I hope one day India will also be able to enjoy these advantages - and China too, of course.
Amitav Ghosh
#11. As a reminder to himself and anyone who visited his office in the shanty, Burnham posted a sign over his desk bearing a single word: RUSH.
Erik Larson
#12. And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.
Bo Burnham
#13. He remembered the forceful hand that cast him to the earth. He'd fallen like a shooting star, his flesh burning until his wings fell away. Pain was something he had never known before. But even worse than the physical affliction was the knowledge that he would forevermore be denied Heaven.
James Burnham
#14. I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.
Bo Burnham
#15. Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.
Sophy Burnham
#16. People ask me all the time, ALL the time, they say the same exact thing. They say, 'Bo, you're an artist ... how do we fix Africa?'
Bo Burnham
#17. I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
Bo Burnham
#18. I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
Bo Burnham
#19. Women are like fingers and toes because they're easy to count on.
Bo Burnham
#20. Mmmmmm
I like that thing you do with your tongue. What do you call it? Speaking? Yeah, I dig it
Bo Burnham
#21. 'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying to show that I can pack as much material into an hour as I possibly could word count-wise.
Bo Burnham
#23. Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.
Bo Burnham
#24. For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
Bo Burnham
#25. Societies that have condoned male cheating and condemned female cheating are simply male-dominated cultures. Cheating is cheating, no matter who is doing it. It's wrong.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#26. Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or a god, which some people do. This might just be in America, but 'stand-up comedy' is something very particular that I don't particularly relate to.
Bo Burnham
#27. Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#28. The only way to handle big business is to delegate, delegate, delegate.
Daniel Burnham
#29. How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I've got a cousin who is 18 ... Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.
Bo Burnham
#30. As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.
Frederick Russell Burnham
#31. Cheating is pure hypocrisy. Our partner deserves better than that. If we don't love someone, we should not be with them. That would also be hypocrisy.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#32. Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.
Sophy Burnham
#33. Some people think that it's okay to be downright nasty to people they love. It is not okay. Nasty is never called for, and it's certainly not sweet, useful, nor positive.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#34. I don't consciously try to make things difficult as much as I try to make them a little different. I like all kinds of laughs. I tried to make a show that elicit groans, guffaws, chuckles, boos.
Bo Burnham
#35. I've always liked TV shows that have slightly unlikable leads, where you root for them in spite of a lot of things. I know it's not common with shows with young people; they have to be so likable. But, I mean, teenagers just generally aren't very likable. I know I wasn't as a teenager.
Bo Burnham
#36. Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.
Bo Burnham
#37. Well, man, you know what they say.
No, I don't. I don't know what they say.
I don't even know who they are.
Who is this they?
They seem pretty smug.
They seem to think they know shit.
Fuck them.
Bo Burnham
#38. When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.
Sophy Burnham
#39. Some people believe that if they yell and scream, others will get the point of just how serious they are. For me, all I get is the point of just how out of control that someone is.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#40. I'm gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
Bo Burnham
#41. In the browser, try to use a shim[18] that defers to requestAnimationFrame in browsers that support it and falls back on setTimeout in those that don't.
Trevor Burnham
#42. Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.
Bo Burnham
#43. When we resort to screaming at someone, we are revealing weakness and a sense of helplessness. If we can't seem to get our message or feelings across any other way, then we get angry, and we get loud!
Cathy Burnham Martin
#44. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Daniel Burnham
#45. I got a safe full of cherries 'cause I pop it and lock it.
Bo Burnham
#46. I've been doin' drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
Bo Burnham
#47. I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
Bo Burnham
#48. Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.
Bo Burnham
#49. Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.
Sophy Burnham
#50. A guest at a dinner party observed the strange expression on James Thurber's face. 'Don't be concerned,' said Thurber's wife. 'He's writing.'
Sophy Burnham
#51. Over the moon about strong support for the National Health Service - an institution I will defend to my dying day, second only to Everton FC.
Andy Burnham
#52. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Daniel Burnham
#53. I'm very interested in trying to make comedy shows that are a bit bigger, more theatrical, more of a "show." Some people might say I'm trying too hard, but that's a compliment to me. I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
Bo Burnham
#54. Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
Bo Burnham
#55. A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there ...
Sophy Burnham
#56. People do complain about the way I act on stage ... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.
Bo Burnham
#57. I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me ...
Bo Burnham
#58. I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
Bo Burnham
#59. I've always liked the format of YouTube, sharing things for free, which is a nice exchange between people.
Bo Burnham
#60. There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.
James Burnham
#61. It matters little which party has gotten lazy about delivering what their partner craves. It doesn't take too many days or weeks for an unsatisfied partner to start to feel love-starved and sadly unfulfilled. If you want great sex in the bedroom, show love to each other outside the bedroom.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#62. I stopped and I thought, 'What would Jesus do?' So I didn't exist.
Bo Burnham
#63. For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: 'I'll say anything, man!'. I'm not quite there yet.
Bo Burnham
#64. I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They teach us everything important about life.
Sophy Burnham
#65. She was Mattie Tucker now, mother of three and a good forty pounds heavier, casting that burning eye over them all, reaching way back for a southern pleasantry that was more like a Halloween apple with a razor blade in it: 'Well, don't y'all make just the perfect family of four?
John Burnham Schwartz
#66. I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I'm not racist.
Bo Burnham
#67. The strength of comedy is I don't have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.
Bo Burnham
#68. I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.' The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.
Erik Larson
#69. I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
Bo Burnham
#71. I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious.
Bo Burnham
#72. Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#73. It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
Daniel Burnham
#74. Trust means that they will never throw our pain and vulnerabilities in our face. Trust means we know they will protect us and our innermost thoughts and shared feelings without question.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#75. My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.
Bo Burnham
#76. Harriet Beecher Stowe thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was written through her by Another Hand, so little did she know what was going to happen from moment to moment in the book. She herself was amazed at what she was writing.
Sophy Burnham
#77. I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I ... don't.
Bo Burnham
#78. Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
Bo Burnham
#79. If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
Bo Burnham
#80. People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.
Bo Burnham
#81. I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead.
Sophy Burnham
#82. Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
Bo Burnham
#83. A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.
Daniel Burnham
#84. Judge Jesus I said, "You can't judge me. Only Jesus can!" He said, "Well I can 'cause I'm a judge and 'cause you just killed a man.
Bo Burnham
#85. Past misdeeds must only serve as a reference point in calm conversation about lessons learned or actions that taught us to behave better. They should never be bantered about with sarcasm, anger, or nastiness.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#86. Forever and An Instant met up one day,
Had a short, but lovely talk,
then each went on it's way.
Bo Burnham
#87. Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts ...
Sophy Burnham
#88. Sexy is a decision. We decide that our spouse looks sexy to us. Period. It doesn't matter our age or how long we've been together.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#89. I always wanted to be a comedian and actor, [ ... ] I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I'm OK, but that's about it. I like to think I'm good enough not to negatively affect the performance.
Bo Burnham
#90. Being strong is important. But knowing who you can count on is equally important
Niki Burnham
#91. The verification services that could be offered would be applied appropriately according to the business process that was involved,
Andy Burnham
#92. At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.
Bo Burnham
#93. Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has already come.
James Burnham
#94. I just like to write and then perform.
Bo Burnham
#95. Without trust, our relationships lack an essential ingredient for emotional intimacy. We need to be able to totally trust our partner with our deepest thoughts, dreams, fears, and secrets.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#96. And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
Bo Burnham
#97. Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.
John Burnham Schwartz
#98. Fireflies Hey, fireflies! Fly higher, guys! Fly high above this place. Till a sky rise is a wire's size. Then fly off into space. I catch stupid bugs in jars but you're not bugs you're baby stars!
Bo Burnham
#99. We are imperfect humans and are bound to need attitude adjustments from time to time.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#100. The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.
Bo Burnham
